This paper analyses the age differences in party membership across Europe, using evidence from the World Values Survey 1990-2000 and the European Social Survey 2002/3. Political parties are becoming 'old school' in Europe. They are generally losing members in many European democracies as it is...

This paper provides an analysis of the political preferences of ethnic Germans who emigrated from the Soviet Union or its successor states. These resettlers (Aussiedler) and their descendants represent the biggest group of immigrant voters in Germany and reveal a rare combination of citizenship,...

What can donation strategies tell us about corporate political preferences, as seen from the perspective of power resource and varieties of capitalism theories? This article tests six hypotheses within an Olsonian framework for corporate donations to political parties with new data from the 100...